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About Splash

The premier entrepreneurship conference.

About

Vator Splash is Vator's premier startup event and competition, which has been held in Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and New York since 2010.

Vator Splash
brings together high-caliber speakers who talk about how to build and
scale great successful companies, how their industries are changing
and the opportunities those changes are creating.

Splash also
allows the audience to mingle with top venture capitalists and angels
who are funding tomorrow's next Google and Facebook. These influencers
will give you insights into how they think when it comes to
investments and they'll also talk about their changing investment
strategies in light of the emergence of super angels, angels, micro-VCs
and incubators.

Michael Dubin

Brian Lee & Jessica Alba

Mark Cuban

Splash is one of the best startup competitions and educational events, attracting super smart thought leaders in the tech industry. It's an event that inspires. This is an event for entrepreneurs who want to learn how to innovate, raise money, and scale a company. It's also a place for new investors to learn about angel investing and established ones to sharpen their game.

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The Venue

OAKLAND SCOTTISH RITE CENTER

Situated on the shores of beautiful Lake Merritt, Oakland Scottish Rite Center is located near downtown Oakland and just a short ride from San Francisco. With space available for up to 1500 participants in the auditorium, it is the perfect venue for corporate meetings. WIFI: SRCGUEST

Alumni

Vator alumni have raised $1B-plus in follow-on capital. Here are a few:

The event provides results: a significant number of investors, advisors and business development opportunities arose after we won Vator Splash in front of a crowd of more than 200. Furthermore, one of the judges - Dave McClure - ended up investing in our company. Finally, VatorSplash was a great momentum-builder for us as we were getting ready to fundraise. The victory provided social proof to prospective investors and increased our chances of successfully attracting investment. We went on to raise $1M from a great group of angel investors!

Gagan Biyani

Co-founder, Udemy

The VatorSplash events have been a fantastic opportunity to see great start-ups, connect with other investors, and hear from industry visionaries. Javelin has proudly sponsored the event for many years, and plans to keep actively supporting it for many more."

DogVacay.com won Vator Splash LA in June 2012. The competition allowed us an opportunity to meet and pitch against some of the great Los Angeles startups and further foster our entrepreneurial community. There was such a positive energy with so many great minds providing insightful feedback throughout the night. Two paws up, Vator!

Aaron Hirschhorn

Founder & CEO at DogVacay

Vator's competition platform made it simple to judge contestants by accessing video, PPT, ratings, executive summaries all in one place. It's the most efficient solution to judging competitions and it makes the process of judging a lot more fun! And the Vator Splash competition makes it easy and efficient to review a large number of early-stage startups that I would not otherwise have been exposed to

The Vator community and its Splash event provided the perfect launch pad to generate exposure for our company. Winning Vator Splash 2013 SF gave us the exposure, quality venture capital meetings and network effect every startup needs to initiate and complete a successful round. The very next quarter, we raised a $4M Series A. Thanks Vator!

Vator Splash gives you a lot more than a fabulous evening of networking; it gives you access to an entire community of active investors and inspiring entrepreneurs that are making it happen. The event generated significant exposure for our online travel dashboard venture. Weeks after presenting we raised $100K from an investor who saw the online video of our Vator pitch.

Be able to start several months prior to the event. Must have solid writing, communication skills.

For those interested in working with startups.

Details about pre-production roles:

Startup Scout Master, Startup Finalist Host: This
person loves to work with startups and would love to learn more about
them. Your job will be to identify promising startups, interact with
them and help prep finalists to get on stage. This job is great for
someone who wants to work at a startup or invest in them.

Director of Investor Relations, Accelerator Partner Relations:
This person wants to interact with venture capitalists and angel
investors and corporate investors – in short – investors. You will
engage with them around 5 to 6 weeks prior to the event. Your job is to
get to know them and their investments and to help them to evaluate the
startups in the finalist competition. The Accelerator Partner Relations
person will communicate with accelerators to engage their startups in
the event and competition.

Social Media and Press: This person(s) is proficient
at putting press releases together and posting social media updates on
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Vator. This person has excellent writing
skills and is fluent in English. This person has comfort and
familiarity with social networks. This person must spend at least 20
minutes daily posting for Vator one month prior to the event about the
event speakers, relevant news and throughout the day of event. Press
person should work on at least one press release.